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Gregory Maguire
J.K. Rowling

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Dean Koontz
Stephen King
Terry Goodkind

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The table shows the current rank of each book and the change since last week, where:

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x no longer on list (number of x's: weeks off list)

All lists rank hardcovers and paperbacks separately, except for the USA Today list, which is a single list combining fiction and nonfiction in all formats. Dates shown are posted dates, except those in parentheses, which are dates compiled. New York Times posts its list one week in advance of print publication.

Note that some sources do not compile paperback bestsellers, and some exclude YA books (like the Harry Potter series) from their hardcover and paperback fiction lists.

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posted 28 December 2005

Jonathan Stroud's Ptolemy's Gate (Miramax), third in the "Bartimaeus Trilogy" (following The Amulet of Samarkand and The Golem's Eye), debuts on 2 Amazon lists this week, those for US and Canada. (Despite some listings for the book as a January or even February '06 publication, it's in stores now.) The boxed set of C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia (HarperTrophy) reaches #1 this week on USA Today combined list of all books, after several weeks of creeping higher and higher; it's also reached #1 on New York Times list of children's bestsellers. The second individual title, The Magician's Nephew, debuted on that list a few weeks ago; the third title in the series, The Horse and His Boy, debuts this week, at #142. (Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 01.01	WP 12.25	SFC 12.25	USAT 12.18	PW 12.19 (ch 12.12)	Amz (12.28)	UK: Amz UK (12.28)	Australia: Dymocks (12.28)	Canada: Amz.ca (12.28)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		30x5	10x4	30x3	150	15x5	100	100	10x4	100
Hardcovers
Funke, Dragon Rider	08.16.04 / 71	9 -2			xxx..		xxx..			xxx..
Funke, Inkspell	09.06.05 / 15	3 =			113 -11		x			x
Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes	10.11.05 / 12	27 -2	xxx..	xxx..	xx		xxx			66 -33
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go	04.12.05 / 21	xxx..		xxx..	xxx..		99 -29			x
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (UK)	02.22.05 / 16							59 +23		xxx..
Jordan, Knife of Dreams	08.16.05 / 20	18 =	xxx..	xxx..	127 -24		78 +17			x
Jordan, Knife of Dreams (UK)	09.06.05 / 17							xxx..	10 =
King, Cell	12.13.05 / 3						36 +48			49 ++
Koontz, Forever Odd	11.29.05 / 5	6 +2	9 -1		36 -10	[ 5 ]	xx
Kostova, The Historian	06.14.05 / 29	19 -2	xxx..	xxx..	145 +		41 +15			xx
Luceno, Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader	12.06.05 / 4	23 -4	xxx		x
Maguire, Son of a Witch	09.20.05 / 15	12 =	xxx..	xx	68 -3	[ 12 ]	x			xxx..
Martin, A Feast for Crows	02.23.03 / 39	20 -5	xxx	10 +	130 -33	[ 13 ]	71 +25			39 +25
Martin, A Feast for Crows (UK)	09.06.05 / 11							73 +	xxx..
Paolini, Eldest	03.01.05 / 43	1 =		xxx..	33 =		95 -24	xx		x
Paolini, Eldest (UK)	09.20.05 / 14								4 =
Pratchett, Thud! (UK)	05.24.05 / 30							76 -49	xxx..	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	12.20.04 / 54			xxx	18 -4		16 +1
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK)	12.27.04 / 52							49 -12	5 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (CANADA)	12.20.04 / 52									14 -2
Stroud, The Ptolemy's Gate	12.27.05 / 1						63 ++			75 ++
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 01.01	WP 12.25	SFC 12.25	USAT 12.18	PW 12.19 (ch 12.12)	Amz (12.28)	UK: Amz UK (12.28)	Australia: Dymocks (12.28)	Canada: Amz.ca (12.28)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Crichton, State of Fear	11.08.05 / 8	6 -2	6 -1		28 -4	[ 3 ]				xxx
Funke, Inkheart [tpb]	05.31.05 / 28	4 =			xxx..
Funke, The Thief Lord	09.28.03 / 72	10 +			xxx..					xxx..
Goodkind, Chainfire	12.13.05 / 3	25 -2			x	[ 14 ]
King, The Colorado Kid	10.18.05 / 10	30 +	xxx..		xxx
King, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower [tpb]	11.15.05 / 4	xxx..			xxx..					78 +
Koontz, Life Expectancy	11.08.05 / 8	12 -4	xxx..		67 -5	[ 11 ]
Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set	12.21.03 / 32	1 +1			1 +1		3 -2			5 +1
Lewis, The Horse and His Boy	12.27.05 / 1				142 ++
Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe	06.14.05 / 28	2 -1			4 =
Lewis, The Magician's Nephew	11.29.05 / 5				24 +5
Maguire, Wicked [tpb]	06.15.03 / 110	7 =	5 +2	xxx	20 +5	[ 6 ]	35 +2			xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb]	01.04.05 / 51							4 +5
Paolini, Eragon [tpb]	05.10.05 / 34	3 =		xxx..	46 +9
Pratchett, Going Postal (UK)	10.04.05 / 12							95 +
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]		xxx..		xxx..	80 +7
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb]	08.11.02 / 152	xxx..		xxx..	59 -1
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb]	07.05.04 / 78	xxx..		xxx..	47 +7		xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb]	06.17.01 / 178	xxx..		xxx..	114 +20
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone [tpb]		xxx..		xxx..	58 +8		xxx..
Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind [tpb]	02.08.05 / 43	xxx..		3 =	xxx..
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 01.01	WP 12.25	SFC 12.25	USAT 12.18	PW 12.19 (ch 12.12)	Amz (12.28)	UK: Amz UK (12.28)	Australia: Dymocks (12.28)	Canada: Amz.ca (12.28)
This cell color indicates rankings on children's bestsellers lists		This cell color indicates rankings of books based on pre-publication sales				[Italics and brackets, and/or this cell color, indicate stale data -- rankings from one or more weeks before -- and do not contribute to the cumulative weeks on any list totals]

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